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is a sure find (Titsey and Limpsfield being meets for 

 his strong vale coverts). From Farley Green are 

 drawn the large woodlands roand, such as the Selsdon 

 and Sanderstead Woods. 



Thursday is the day for " below the hill/^ where, 

 again,, there are many strong woodlands, though the 

 western vale towards Bletchingley and Nutfield is 

 open enough. Three foxes out of four found in the 

 Vale, may make at once for the hills ; though now and 

 again one will set his head in the direction of East 

 Grinstead and point southward for Burstow Park or 

 Felbridge Park. The east of the Yale is much taken 

 up by ^' charts " — great wild forest wastes of beech 

 and oak, about which hounds may run for hours while 

 the rider wanders through as he can find a track, or a 

 semblance of one. Brasted Chart and Limpsfield 

 Chart are very big j and there is a great deal of covert 

 round Crockham Hill, of which a detached rise of woods 

 (mostly on the east side) belongs to Mr. Williams. 



Limpsfield, as before mentioned, is all the property 

 of Mr. Leveson Gower of Titsey Park. Wester ham 

 (Col. Warde of Squerries) is the meet for Westerham 

 Wood and Tower Wood; and from Tandridge and 

 Oxted they go to Lord Cottenham^s coverts and the 

 Barrow Green Woods (the property of Mr. Master). 

 In the best of the vale are the meets of Nutfield, 

 Bletchingley, and Godstone, with smaller coverts in 

 their neighbourhood. The Nutfield district is more 

 sandy, as compared with the holding soil of the vale. 

 Ifc is rapidly getting built over — though Mr. Fielden, 

 who has a small park there, seldom fails still to have 

 a fox. 



